So I logged into SO this morning and noticed my rep score was a few points higher than yesterday, but I could find no indication of why, so naturally I went to /reputation. and there noticed that my rep score was this.

It's by design :( There are different ways where/how the score is saved/calculated/cached. Likely with performance in mind. You can flag a moderator to request for a "recalc". This is likely never going to be solved. See also: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43609/…
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BalusCJul 23 '10 at 15:46

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BTW: you have one upvote and one downvote on that answer. So net score is 0.
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BalusCJul 23 '10 at 15:48

Interesting, so they are all correct and none of them correct then, eh?
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msarchetJul 23 '10 at 15:49

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Do you want a recalc right now or would you like to keep it this way for a little while for observation?
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mmyersJul 23 '10 at 15:50

@BalusC and @Grace Note, see now that makes sense, I wish I could see up and down votes on my own answers.
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msarchetJul 23 '10 at 15:50

@msarchet Your displayed score is cached, since it's shown constantly all over the site, but the /reputation score should be accurate
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Michael MrozekJul 23 '10 at 15:51

@mmyers, I'd like to watch it for a bit and see what happens
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msarchetJul 23 '10 at 15:51

@Michael Mrozek, right makes the most sense
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msarchetJul 23 '10 at 15:51

@msarchet: you can instantly see up/downvote totals when you've at least 1000 reputation.
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BalusCJul 23 '10 at 15:53

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You can always see the upvotes and downvotes, albeit requiring manual calculation but regardless of reputation, using the time machine!
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Grace Note♦Jul 23 '10 at 15:53

@Grace: wow, how did you know about that hidden feature? Is it somewhere linked on the question itself?
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BalusCJul 23 '10 at 15:56

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The /reputation page was created so that you could see what reputation you should have. Sometimes that and your actual reputation don't match due to things like deleted questions, answers and other things in the system that aren't automatically reflected in your current reputation.

If you feel that your /reputation number is significantly far off from your actual number, flag one of your posts for moderator attention requesting a reputation recalc. They would be happy to bring those two numbers in line.

Personally, I'm fine if the numbers are off by a little, but when they are off by over 100, I like to get my rep recalculated.